Incremental printing of symbolic information inventions 08/06

20060192796 - Digital image printing system, control method therefor, printing device, control method therefor, and computer product: In a digital image printing system, an external device capable of storing digital image data, and a printing apparatus capable of printing the digital image data are mutually connectable, and capable of exchanging data. The printing apparatus includes a paper feeding unit having a multi-tray structure. The external device sends...

20060192795 - Inkjet printer with carbon copy capability: A printer operable to print on a multi-layer print media includes a non-impact printhead, an impact printhead, and a controller operable to control the non-impact printhead to produce an image on a first layer of the print media and to control the impact printhead to produce a corresponding image on...

20060192797 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle formation face formed with a nozzle orifice; a pressure chamber communicated with the nozzle orifice and adapted to contain liquid therein; and a pressure generator operable to cause pressure change in the pressure chamber so as to eject the liquid in the pressure...

20060192798 - Printer: A printer for printing a pattern, design, etc. on fabric comprises a vertical driving unit and a fabric thickness detecting mechanism. The vertical driving unit moves a printing unit including a print head in the vertical direction to let the print head move toward and away from the fabric held...

20060192799 - Error reduction by print masks: In a method of printing a plurality of pages during a print job, a page-wide-array printing device having redundant dot-forming elements is used. Print masks distribute dot-forming-element activity between the redundant dot-forming elements in a manner taking into account known malfunctions of dot-forming elements to hide such malfunctions, or reduce...

20060192800 - Ink-jet printing method, printing system, ink-jet printing apparatus, print data generating method, program and printer driver: Print data is generated for being printed by an ink-jet printing apparatus, which has a first mode for high-speed printing and a second mode for high-quality printing, for performing multiple-pass printing by an ink-jet printhead provided with orifices for discharging ink droplets of large volume and orifices for discharging ink...

20060192802 - Device and method for driving jetting head: There is disclosed a head driving device which drives a plurality of pressure generating elements for generating pressure fluctuation in a jetted object contained in each of associated pressure chambers formed in a jetting head of a jetting apparatus to eject the jetted object from each of nozzles communicated with...

20060192801 - Droplet ejection device and droplet ejection method: In a droplet ejection device, a latch circuit acquires discharge data in which a resolution is set up for each resolution section in a transport direction of a recording medium, and sets data elements in each resolution section for respective ones of a plurality of nozzles. An output enable signal...

20060192803 - Printing device, printing program, printing method, image processing device, image processing program, image processing method, and recording medium in which the program is stored: A printing device for printing a plurality of dots on a medium used for printing includes: a print head having a plurality of print elements for forming dots disposed respectively in a row direction, which is a direction of relative movement thereof with respect to the medium, and in an...

20060192804 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus can detect a leading edge and a width of a recording medium with a simple structure so as to prevent erroneous recording. A carriage has a recording head to form the image by scanning the recording medium. A detector is provided in the carriage so as...

20060192806 - Identification code, formation method of identification code, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, and electro-optic apparatus: An identification code is formed in a code formation area provided on a substrate. The code formation area is divided into a plurality of data cells. A plurality of dots are bonded with the substrate in such a manner that each of the dots is arranged in a predetermined data...

20060192805 - Liquid-ejecting head, liquid-ejecting device, liquid-ejecting method, and ejection medium for liquid-ejecting head: A liquid-ejecting head includes a liquid cell that contains an ejection medium that is liquid at normal temperature, a nozzle for ejecting the ejection medium in the liquid cell, an energy-generating element for supplying ejection energy to the ejection medium in the liquid cell, and heating means for heating the...

20060192807 - Printing apparatus and method of controlling printing therein: A printing apparatus prints by causing a carriage, on which is mounted a printhead having a plurality of printing elements, to scan across a printing medium, the plurality of printing elements being divided into a plurality of blocks based upon entered print data. The apparatus includes a first comparison circuit...

20060192808 - Printhead: Methods and articles used to degass liquids in a drop ejection device are disclosed....

20060192809 - Image forming apparatus: Cleaning liquid stored in a first storage tank is absorbed by a sponge via a passage formed in a tube and a holder, and then applied onto a conveyance belt when the sponge comes into contact with the conveyance belt. Here, even when air bubbles enter into the cleaning liquid...

20060192810 - Printhead assembly having improved adhesive bond strength: A printhead assembly is provided. The printhead assembly comprises (a) a plurality of printhead integrated circuits comprising; and (b) an ink manifold having a mounting surface, the backside of each printhead integrated circuit being bonded to the mounting surface with an adhesive. Each printhead integrated circuit comprises a plurality of...

20060192811 - Substrates adapted for adhesive bonding: A first substrate suitable for bonding to a second substrate using an adhesive is provided. The first substrate has a plurality of etched trenches defined in a first bonding surface. The etched trenches are configured for receiving the adhesive during bonding, thereby increasing the adhesive bond strength. The first substrates...

20060192812 - Printing device, printing device control program and method, and printing data generation device, program, and method: A printing device that prints an image by forming a dot formation pattern on a printing medium in accordance with image data of a printing object using a printing head that includes a plurality of nozzles each being capable of forming dots to the printing medium. The printing device includes:...

20060192814 - Film forming device, film forming method, and method for manufacturing electronic appliance: A film forming device includes: a first discharge unit for discharging a first liquid material, in which a film forming material is dissolved in a solvent or dispersed in a dispersion medium; a second discharge unit for discharging a second liquid material containing a liquid with the same component as...

20060192813 - Printhead integrated circuit adapted for adhesive bonding: A printhead integrated circuit suitable for bonding to a mounting surface of an ink manifold using an adhesive is provided. The printhead integrated circuit comprises: a plurality of nozzles formed on a front side of the printhead integrated circuit; a plurality of ink supply channels for supplying ink from a...

20060192815 - Slotted substrates and methods and systems for forming same: Methods and systems for forming compound slots in a substrate are described. In one exemplary implementation, a structure contains a plurality of slots in a substrate. The structure also has a trench in the substrate contiguous with the plurality of slots to form a compound slot....

20060192816 - Printhead with multiple ink feeding channels: A thermal ink jet printhead (40) for the emission of droplets of ink on a print medium (46) comprises a reservoir (103) containing ink (142), a die (61), a slot (102) engraved in said die (61) and a plurality of ejectors (73), each of which in turn comprises a chamber...

20060192817 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: The present invention includes a passage-forming substrate on which pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzle orifices ejecting a liquid are respectively formed separately from each other, and actuator devices each including a vibration plate provided on the passage-forming substrate, wherein, a protective plate is jointed to a side of the...

20060192818 - Cartridge for dispenser of particular fluid substances: A cartridge capable of long term storing and repeated dispensing of a variety of fluid substances that change their properties when exposed to air. These fluid substances can have properties that make them difficult to store and dispense such as high viscosity, sticky, fast drying, and oxidizing in contact with...

20060192823 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus is arranged in which the loading and unloading of ink cartridges as well as the supply and removal of a recording medium is carried out at the upstream side in a conveying direction. The ink tubes for connecting ink dispensing outlets and ink dispensing inlets...

20060192821 - Ink-jet recording apparatus: An ink-jet recording apparatus is provided in which mixing of different colors of ink in ink supply openings is inhibited. A recording head has a plurality of sub-tanks, each of which stores a different color of ink. The recording head records an image onto a recording medium by selectively ejecting...

20060192822 - Liquid ejection apparatus and method for controlling liquid ejection apparatus: An air pressurization pump is driven to apply pressurized air pressure to a main tank storing ink. The pressurized air causes the ink to be supplied from the main tank to a recording head arranged on a carriage. A CPU of an inkjet recording apparatus selectively sets a drive control...

20060192820 - Liquid supplying apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid supplying apparatus for supplying a liquid to an ejecting device. The liquid supplying apparatus includes a liquid storage device, a supply device, a first gas-permeable membrane, and a gas blocking liquid. The liquid storage device, including a reservoir having an atmosphere communication hole in an upper portion of...

20060192819 - Recording apparatus: The invention provides a recording apparatus comprising an image forming liquid imparting device for imparting an image forming liquid to a recording medium, wherein an image forming liquid imparting port of the image forming liquid imparting device is provided with a supplying device for supplying at least one ionic liquid....

20060192824 - Recording liquid container, ink jet recording apparatus, and cartirdge collecting apparatus: A recording liquid container for containing liquid for recording to be supplied to recording means, said recording liquid container being detachably mountable to a mounting portion of a recording device, said recording liquid container includes an information memory medium storing predetermined information; wireless sending means capable of wireless sending of...

20060192827 - Ink, ink set, ink jet recording method, ink cartridge and ink jet recording apparatus: An ink to be used in an ink jet recording method of ejecting an ink from a recording head through action of thermal energy can improve the ink ejection stability and shows a high storage stability and a high color developability. An ink to be used in an ink jet...

20060192826 - Ink-jet water-based ink, ink-jet recording method, ink cartridge and ink-jet recording apparatus: The invention provides an ink-jet water-based ink that can stably record images having high fastness properties and excellent quality over a long period of time even in any case, and further provides an ink-jet recording method, by which images having excellent fastness properties and quality can be recorded, and an...

20060192825 - Photo inkjet ink sets with high and low density yellow pigments: An ink set of at least four colors includes a high density cyan (C), a low density cyan (c), or a high density magenta (M), or a low density magenta (m), or both the cyans and magentas, and a high density yellow comprising Pigment Yellow 74, and a low density...

20060192828 - Water base ink for ink-jet recording: A water base ink for ink-jet recording is provided, which makes it possible to secure a high recording quality with a sharp image area edge by avoiding any blurring even when recording is performed on regular paper and which has satisfactory purge restoration performance. Therefore, no bubble remains in an...

20060192829 - Radiation treatment for ink jet fluids: A printing system that includes a source which emits UV radiation to polymerize a fluid that is deposited onto a substrate by one or more print heads. The source emits low energy UV radiation sufficient to set the fluid to a quasi-fluid, non-hardened state....

20060192832 - Image forming apparatus: In a state that a termination edge of a recording medium aligns with a termination edge of a region opposing a recording head (nozzle surface), a sticking force acting on the recording medium is set to be at least equal to or greater than the weight of a part (a...

20060192830 - Multi purpose digital printer: The present invention discloses a Multi-purpose Digital printer having a transfer roller making the very thin or retractable printing material move in the states of adhering to an adhesive on the transfer belt, to prevent twisting or wrinkling states, and extension states of the printing material, so that it is...

20060192831 - Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus provided with the same: A sheet conveying apparatus has a pair of conveying rotary members for conveying a sheet, an openable and closable conveying guide for guiding the sheet conveyed by the pair of conveying rotary members, a conveying path, which is disposed on a downstream side of the conveying guide, on which the...

20060192833 - Image-recording device having movable carriage to which flexible flat cable and flexible ink supply tubes are connected: An image-recording device including a carriage, a recording head, a guide rail, a flexible flat cable, a flexible ink supply tubes, and a top cover. The recording head is provided at the carriage. The guide rail extends in a widthwise direction of a recording medium fed in a feeding direction...

20060192834 - Optical head and image forming apparatus incorporating the same: An optical head is adapted to form an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier. A transparent substrate has a first face adapted to oppose the image carrier and a second face opposing the first face. An organic EL photo emitter is disposed so as to oppose the second face...

20060192835 - Optical printer head and image forming apparatus: An optical printer head that can, at a low cost, prevent the dimming of light at a lens, and an image forming apparatus that uses such an optical printer head are provided. A lens controls light, emitted by LEDs, that is used to irradiate a photosensitive drum. And since the...

20060192836 - Image forming apparatus: For example, in Unit chassis 30 in which optical instruments are mounted, three of Main fixing members 31, 32 and 33 formed in the reinforced reinforcing areas or in the contiguous areas thereof, as well as Subsidiary fixing member 34 connected to said main fixing members by Flexible member 35,...

20060192837 - Recording and reproducing apparatus: The dimension in the height direction of a reel braking mechanism to be disposed on the side of an S-side reel table in a video tape recorder is made small while making it difficult to disassemble an assembled state. The dimension in an axis line direction of a pin that...

20060192838 - Color image forming apparatus capable of effectively matching registration between elementary color images: Image forming apparatus includes image forming units, an intermediate transfer member, a mark detecting mechanism, a counter, and a controller. The intermediate transfer member have marks. A distance between nth and (n+1)th marks is substantially equal to or smaller than a difference between a distance from a write position of...

20060192839 - Method and apparatus for measuring optical density of image printed on medium: A method and apparatus are provided for measuring the optical density of an image printed on a medium in an image forming apparatus. The method includes the steps of reading reference information from a memory, measuring the amount of light reflected from a medium on which a target image is...

20060192840 - Thermal transfer media and method of making and using same: There is disclosed thermal transfer media containing both fixed and variable printed information, and method of making and using such a thermal transfer medium. The fixed information is printed in one or more fixed-information zone(s) preferably on a web during a long production run and thereafter as the need arises...

20060192841 - Sublimation thermal transfer recording medium and method of the thermal transfer recording therewith: A sublimation thermal transfer recording medium and a thermal transfer recording method that can remove background stain and the like, and can realize gradation printing with good accuracy and high correlation between the applied heat quantity and the coloring density are provided. The sublimation thermal transfer recording medium includes a...

20060192842 - Image forming apparatus and method of controlling same: Whether an image to be formed has a prescribed M×N pixel pattern is determined by a comparator. If it is determined that the image has the prescribed M×N pixel pattern, then a light-quantity correction signal that is for reducing the current that flows through a semiconductor laser is output to...

20060192843 - Led array exposing apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same: Provided are an LED-array exposing apparatus and image forming apparatus using the same wherein one or more LED-array chips which mount LEDs corresponding to pixels are employed. LED light intensities are compensated, taking into consideration distance variations between the LED-array chips, a photoreceptor sensitivity and a development bias voltage, thereby...

20060192844 - Polygon mirror unit having a seal member with slits positioned between a central portion and a peripheral portion: In the laser unit 100 according to the present invention, a central portion 41 and a peripheral portion 42 of a seal member 40 used are separated from each other by slits 43. Therefore, when the seal member 40 is mounted, the central and peripheral portions will not affect each...

20060192845 - Methods and systems for thermal-based laser processing a multi-material device: A method and system for locally processing a predetermined microstructure formed on a substrate without causing undesirable changes in electrical or physical characteristics of the substrate or other structures formed on the substrate are provided. The method includes providing information based on a model of laser pulse interactions with the...

20060187244 - Imaging apparatus for facilitating printing: A method for facilitating printing includes the steps of providing to a consumer a first printer containing a fixed amount of imaging substance; receiving back from the consumer the first printer after a substantial portion of the imaging substance has been used; and exchanging the first printer with an exchange...

20060187243 - Nozzle guard for a printhead: An ink jet printhead has a number of printhead chips (10). Each printhead chip (10) has a wafer substrate (16). A plurality of nozzle arrangements (10) is positioned on the wafer substrate. Each nozzle arrangement (22) has nozzle chamber walls and a roof wall that define a nozzle chamber (34)...

20060187245 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus comprises a body, an engine part provided in the body and including a recording head that ejects droplets of a recording liquid, the engine part recording an image on a recording medium by the recording head while feeding the recording medium in a main scanning direction,...

20060187248 - Data transferring apparatus for transferring liquid ejection data and a liquid ejecting apparatus: If data, which is irrelevant to recording data, is stored in a lower address of head word data of the run length compressed recording data stored in a receiving buffer unit, the irrelevant byte data of the lower address of the word data including the head byte data is nullified...

20060187246 - Image processor, image processing method, program that makes computer execute the method, and recording medium: An image processor includes an automatic color determining unit that determines whether an input image signal including a plurality of color signals indicates a color image or a monochrome image, an operation panel for accepting selection of a color processing mode for applying color image processing and a monochrome processing...

20060187247 - Printing apparatus: For a serial color ink jet printing apparatus that forms an image using a symmetric printing head that ejects large dots and small dots, the configuration of a printing head is provided for suppressing, to the extent possible, a cyclic fluctuation in the main scanning direction. According to the present...

20060187249 - Method of detecting liquid amount, printer, and printing system: The method of detecting a liquid amount includes applying a drive signal to a piezoelectric element provided at a predetermined position in a liquid containing section for containing a liquid, detecting an output signal from the piezoelectric element due to a residual vibration after the application of the drive signal,...

20060187250 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: a liquid ejection head which has a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of pressure generating elements corresponding to the nozzles, and applies a drive signal to the pressure generating elements so as to eject recording liquid from the nozzles; a plurality of drive waveform...

20060187251 - Printer controller for supplying data to a printhead module having interleaved shift registers: A printer controller for providing data to a printhead module that includes: at least one row of print nozzles; at least first and second shift registers for shifting in dot data supplied from a data source, wherein each shift register feeds dot data to a group of nozzles, and wherein...

20060187254 - Color ink deposition order determination method, and image forming method and apparatus: A method determines a color ink deposition order when inks of a plurality of colors are overlapped on one another to form an image on a recording medium. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining information on OD_β(α) concerning an ink of a first color a and OD_α(β) concerning an...

20060187253 - Ink jet application device and ink jet application method: An ink jet application device comprises an application head, an information storage, a first converter, a second converter, a third converter, a three-terminal regulator and a switching circuit. The application head has a plurality of nozzles and a plurality of actuators respectively mounted to the nozzles, and sprays ink from...

20060187252 - Method and system for correcting color shift caused by printing with an imaging system using multiple cartridges: A method of correcting color shift caused by printing with an imaging system using a first cartridge and a second cartridge different from the first cartridge includes determining individual cartridge characterization data based on each of the first cartridge and the second cartridge individually; determining combined cartridge characterization data that...

20060187255 - Temperature detection method and printing apparatus using the same: Provided is a temperature detection method capable of more accurately acquiring an environmental temperature and more accurately correcting temperature detection of a printhead. In a printing apparatus to which this method is applied, a previous printing time when the printhead has performed a printing operation is stored in a nonvolatile...

20060187256 - Method of determining operating drive voltage of an in-jet head, ink-jet recording apparatus and superposed-pattern-recorded article: A method of determining an operating drive voltage of an ink-jet head which has an actuator and which ejects, as a result of driving of the actuator, ink droplets toward a recording medium during a relative movement of the ink-jet head and the recording medium for performing recording, the ink-jet...

20060187257 - Inkjet-recording-head flushing method: A method of flushing a nozzle of an inkjet recording head so as to recover an ink-ejection performance of the nozzle. The nozzle ejects, in a recording mode of the inkjet recording head, a plurality of droplets of an ink to record dot images, such that each of the droplets...

20060187258 - Image forming apparatus having a recessed part in outer covering: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body having an image forming part that forms an image by scanning a recording head discharging droplets of a recording liquid. A paper eject part is located in an upper portion of the apparatus body for stacking recording papers having the image formed...

20060187259 - Method of manufacturing nozzle plate, liquid ejection head, and image forming apparatus comprising liquid ejection head: The method of manufacturing a nozzle plate, comprises the steps of: providing a liquid-repelling film on a first surface of a nozzle plate having a nozzle for ejecting liquid; then performing semi-curing of the liquid-repelling film; then providing a mask having a mask hole corresponding to the nozzle, on the...

20060187260 - Laser ink jet printer: An ink ejecting apparatus that rapidly heats a small volume of ink using radiative heating from pulsating laser light radiation (as opposed to surface conductive heating from a thin film electrical resistive heater). The laser light travels through a bubble that has been formed by a previous pulse and is...

20060187263 - Droplet discharge device and method of driving the same: In order to preserve good droplet discharge efficiency in a droplet discharge device, a plurality of timings are set within a period in which a plurality of droplets are to be discharged to a target position. Consecutive timings are divided by a cycle time of pressure wave that is generated...

20060187261 - Fluid chamber configuration within an inkjet printhead: An inkjet printer has a plurality of ink ejection nozzles. Each nozzle includes a paddle (5) located in a chamber (2) which is moveable in a forward direction between a rest state and an ejection state, for ejecting fluid from the chamber through an outlet port (11) as it moves...

20060187262 - Inkjet head and a method of manufacturing an inkjet head: An inkjet head having improved print image quality is provided. The inkjet head includes a nozzle plate having nozzles for discharging ink. Swelled portions are arranged that project from the outer surface of the nozzle plate that is the surface facing a printing medium when the inkjet head is in...

20060187264 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: Aerosols are applied to an absorbing member by forming a stable and uniform electric field between a nozzle plate and the absorbing member. A liquid ejecting apparatus includes: a liquid ejecting head that has a conductive nozzle plate and discharges liquid from openings of the nozzle plate during reciprocating above...

20060187265 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a recording head 210 having a nozzle plate including openings, for ejecting liquid to a recording article 300; an absorbing member 420 disposed further than the recording medium 300 on the orbit of the liquid ejected from the nozzle plate 260, for absorbing the liquid...

20060187266 - High resolution inkjet printer: A high-resolution printer includes a printhead having optimized features including 3 to 20 micron diameter orifices spaced apart from adjacent orifices by a distance of between about 15 and 75 microns. The orifice plate is electroformed and plated to a thickness ranging from about 6 to 19 microns. A barrier...

20060187267 - Printed conductive connectors: Methods of connecting a circuit device to a semiconductor substrate and micro-fluid ejection devices made by the methods. One method includes printing an elongate strip of an electrically conductive fluid to electrically interconnect a first contact pad on a semiconductor substrate containing fluid ejection actuator devices with a second contact...

20060187268 - Channeling fluid flow: In one embodiment, a fluid flow channel includes a first part and a second part connected to and positioned downstream from the first part such that fluid can flow from the first part to the second part. The first part has opposing sidewalls, a floor extending between the sidewalls, and...

20060187271 - Liquid ejection head and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head comprises: a plurality of ejection ports which eject liquid; a plurality of pressure chambers which are communicated with the ejection ports; a plurality of piezoelectric elements which are arranged to sides of the pressure chambers opposite sides of the pressure chambers where the ejection ports are...

20060187269 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: Provided are a liquid-jet head and a liquid-jet apparatus, which can obtain a stable liquid ejecting property. A liquid-jet head includes: a passage-forming substrate in which a plurality of pressure generating chambers communicating with nozzle orifices ejecting a liquid are formed; piezoelectric elements which are provided in a region facing...

20060187272 - Piezoelectric element, ink jet head, angular velocity sensor, method for manufacturing the same, and ink jet recording apparatus: In a piezoelectric element 20, a first electrode layer 2 made of an alloy of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of cobalt, nickel, iron, manganese and copper and a noble metal is formed on a silicon substrate 1, and a piezoelectric layer 3 made of a...

20060187270 - Piezoelectric ink jet module with seal: A piezoelectric ink jet head that includes a polymer film, for example a flex print, located between the piezoelectric element and the reservoirs in the jet body. The film provides an efficient seal for the reservoirs and also positions the electrodes on the side of the piezoelectric element in which...

20060187273 - Ink jet recording apparatus: An ink jet recording apparatus comprises an ink jet recording head having actuators that are caused to deflect so as to vary a volume of a pressure chamber according to a drive signal applied between an electrode associated with a pressure chamber from which ink is ejected and ones associated...

20060187274 - Housing used in inkjet head: A chamber support plate of an inkjet head is formed as a member different from a housing. The chamber support plate is formed with a plurality of grooves at high density by a dicing saw or the like. Piezoelectric elements are inserted into the grooves and adhered to a chamber...

20060187275 - Device and method for ejecting ink droplet: An ink droplet ejection device including: (a) actuators each operable to apply an ejection pressure to an ink stored in a corresponding pressure chamber, for causing an ink ejection through a corresponding nozzle, whereby an image formed as a result of the ink ejection is produced on a medium; and...

20060187276 - Ink droplet ejection device: An ink droplet ejection device including: (a) actuators each operable to apply an ejection pressure to an ink stored in a corresponding pressure chamber, for causing an ink ejection through a corresponding nozzle, whereby an image formed as a result of the ink ejection is produced on a medium; and...

20060187277 - Method and apparatus for forming high-speed liquid: A method and apparatus for forming high-speed water droplets takes advantage on a synergy of features disclosed by the present invention including a low Weber number in a chamber in which a liquid stream breaks up into droplets; a reduced break up distance for forming the water droplets by introducing...

20060187278 - Ink recirculation system: One embodiment of a method of storing a printhead includes opening a valve to a vent of an ink reservoir, operating a pump in a first direction to pull ink from the ink reservoir through said valve, and pumping the ink pulled from the ink reservoir to an ink supply...

20060187279 - Fluid supply system: A fluid supply system for a printing device is disclosed. The fluid supply system includes an ink reservoir adapting member operatively disposed within an ink cartridge. The adapting member has an open end and an end opposed to the open end. The open end is adapted to have a filter...

20060187280 - Tiny air-pressure balance device between an ink cartridge and an ink bottle: A tiny air-pressure balance device between an ink cartridge and an ink bottle, in which the ink cartridge is connected with an ink tube extended to one side of the printer; every ink tube is connected with the outlet of the ink bottle; the upper part of the ink bottle...

20060187281 - Fluid dispenser including an improved pressure regulator: One embodiment of a fluid cartridge includes a fluid chamber including an interior for holding fluid and an exterior in communication with an ambient air pressure, and a pressure regulator aperture extending between the interior and the exterior of the fluid chamber, the pressure regulator aperture including a plurality of...

20060187283 - Ink cartridge: An ink cartridge is detachably mounted on a cartridge holder. At least one first reflector is provided in cartridge holder. A reflective-type optical sensor includes a light emitter and a light receiver. The optical sensor is operable to form an optical path originated from the light emitter to the light...

20060187282 - Recording apparatus having a device for detecting the presence or absence of a liquid: A device for detecting the presence or absence of a liquid, which is installed on an ink-jet recording apparatus, is configured to determine the presence or absence of ink in the ink flow path by detecting the reflection of light from a light transmission portion by irradiating light thereon. The...

20060187284 - Ink-jet ink compositions for use in off-axis printers: The present invention is drawn to systems, methods, and ink-jet ink compositions that include an aqueous liquid vehicle including at least three co-solvents selected from the group consisting of tetraethylene glycol, glycerol, diglycerol, 1,5-pentanediol, 2-pyrrolidone, ethylhydroxy-propanediol. In particular, the composition includes the at least three co-solvents being present in combination...

20060187285 - Ink-jet recording method and ink composition set: The present invention provides an ink composition set comprising an ink composition A comprising at least a colorant and an interior curable photopolymerization initiator, and an ink composition B comprising at least a polymerizable compound, a surface curable photopolymerization initiator and a polymerization accelerator, and an ink-jet recording method using...

20060187286 - Liquid jet apparatus using a fine particle dispersion liquid composition: In an apparatus producing a high-quality and high-resolution image having high water and light resistances with an orifice having a diameter less than φ25 μm (less than 500 μm2 in terms of cross-sectional area of the orifice) by use of a fine particle dispersion recording composition, nozzle clogging can be...

20060187288 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes an engine unit formed by unitizing an engine part configured to scan a carriage having a recording head jetting a liquid drop of recording liquid in a main scanning direction and conveying a recording medium in a sub-scanning direction, so that an image is formed,...

20060187289 - Image forming apparatus: A tension roller is urged by a compression spring, and a position at which the tension roller contacts with a conveyance belt is set to a position coming close to a driven roller rather than a drive roller in such a manner as to prevent a portion of the conveyance...

20060187290 - Image forming apparatus: In an image forming apparatus, a nip roller group for pressing a face of a conveyance belt on which a recording medium is held includes a pair of first end pressing parts which are arranged in the width direction of the conveyance belt at a distance corresponding to the recording...

20060187291 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus is provided with a openable/closable conveyance cover enabling exposure of a recording paper conveyance path on which recording paper is conveyed, on a top of a printer part carrying out recording on the recording paper, and has a conveyance cover lock part configured to fix a...

20060187287 - Method of printing with overlapping paper feed: A method of printing on print media includes the steps of: transporting a first print medium from a first paper bin through a nip; determining an imaging area in which printing occurs on the first print medium and/or a second print medium; transporting the second print medium from a second...

20060187292 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus has an image carrier, an exposure array, a reading sensor and a detecting unit. The image carrier carries a toner image. The exposure array forms a latent image. The reading sensor reads a pattern. The reading sensor is provided integrally with the exposure array. The detecting...

20060187293 - Method for improving the ozone stability of an inkjet recording element: The present invention relates to a method for improving the ozone stability of an inkjet recording element. The present invention consists in using at least one sulfonic polystyrene or one of its sulfonate salts in an inkjet recording element, said element comprising a support and at least one ink-receiving layer...

20060187294 - Scanning optical system, optical scanner, and image forming apparatus: A scanning optical system includes converges, with a single lens, a divergent luminous flux, which is deflected in a main scanning direction by an optical deflector, on a surface of a scan target. The lens has two surfaces in a biconvex shape in both the main scanning direction and a...

20060187295 - Device for imaging a printing form and having at least one laser diode bar: A device for imaging a printing form in a printing form exposer, has at least one laser diode bar which has a number of laser diodes, which are each disposed along a line with nonuniform positional deviation. A spacing of the positions projected onto the line of two adjacent laser...

20060187296 - Method of producing a printing form: A novel method of imaging a printing form renders possible a flexible adjustment of the resolution to a printing image. A number of equidistantly spaced radiation sources are selected from an array of radiation sources arranged along a straight line. The number of the image dots, which are to be...

20060181554 - Correction of positional deviation in bi-directional printing depending on platen gap: A platen gap between a print head and a platen can be adjusted into a plurality of values. Different correction values of bi-directional printing misalignment, δG1 and δG2, which are respectively associated with a plurality of values of the platen gap, PG1 and PG2, are stored in the EEPROM 200...

20060181555 - Method of controlling liquid droplet ejection apparatus, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic device: A method of controlling a liquid droplet ejection apparatus includes: a pressure detecting step of detecting whether the pressure inside a functional liquid tank is below a lower-limit pressure of a working pressure or not; a step of confirming, when the pressure inside the functional liquid tank is below the...

20060181556 - Read/write processing device: A read/write processing device including: a transport path, adapted to transport a medium therethrough; a read/write unit, adapted to read or write data on the medium and provided at a part of the transport path; a transport mechanism, provided with a first feeding roller and a pressing member adapted to...

20060181557 - Fluid droplet ejection devices and methods: A method for driving a droplet ejection device having an actuator, including applying a primary drive pulse to the actuator to cause the droplet ejection device to eject a droplet of fluid in a jetting direction, and applying one or more secondary drive pulses to the actuator which reduce a...

20060181559 - Inkjet dispensing apparatus: An inkjet dispensing apparatus. The inkjet dispensing apparatus includes a cartridge, a chip, and a sensor controller. The cartridge includes a first channel and a second channel. The first channel has a first kind of liquid therein, and the second channel has a second kind of liquid therein, The chip...

20060181558 - Printhead module having horizontally grouped firing order: A printhead module having a plurality of rows of nozzles configured to extend, in use, across at least part of a printable pagewidth, the nozzles in each row being grouped into at least first and second fire groups, the printhead module being configured to sequentially fire, for each row, the...

20060181560 - Power consumption debugging in mobile terminals: Power consumption of an electronic device is measured by using circuitry within the electronic device to make power consumption measurements of the electronic device at predetermined time intervals. Each of the power consumption measurements is provided to a user of the device. This may involve incorporating each of the power...

20060181561 - Printer, program and method for printing, image processor, program and method for image processing and recording medium in which the programs are stored: A printer includes: a print head including a plurality of nozzles capable of printing dots of different sizes; a test-pattern forming section that forms test patterns each have only one dot size; a test-pattern printing section that prints the test patterns formed by the test-pattern forming section for each nozzle...

20060181562 - Image reproducing and forming apparatus, printer driver and data processing apparatus: An image reproducing and forming apparatus comprises a recording head (14) configured to eject liquid droplets of at least one color and capable of bidirectional recording, and a controller (100) configured to control the amount of liquid adhering to a recording paper (3) so as to reduce color difference occurring...

20060181564 - Image processing device capable of detecting and correcting inclination of image: An image process capable of rapidly detecting and correcting the inclination of a document image is executed as follows. Dots are put on a document image at even intervals and the document image is printed to provide a printed object. The printed object is read with a scanner to provide...

20060181563 - Image recording method and image recording apparatus: An image recording method comprises quantizing an image data, discharging a photocurable ink from a recording head onto a recording medium based on the image data quantized for forming recorded dots, irradiating light at the photocurable ink of the recorded dots for recording an image by curing and fixing, calculating...

20060181565 - Printing device, program for controlling printing device, method of controlling printing device, printing data creating device, program for controlling printing data and method of creating printing data: A printing device includes a unit acquiring first image data having pixel data corresponding to a pixel value of an M value corresponding to each color of the color image; a unit storing nozzle information related to banding; a unit creating second image data by changing a pixel data value...

20060181566 - Liquid ejecting apparatus: A liquid ejecting head is adapted to eject liquid toward a target medium, A transporter is adapted to transport a tray on which the target medium is mounted toward a region facing the liquid ejecting head via a transporting path. A tray guide is disposed in a front side of...

20060181567 - Liquid discharging apparatus, and method of performing maintenance on liquid discharging head: A liquid discharging apparatus includes a table that transfers a workpiece in a first scan direction; a carriage that has a liquid discharging head for discharging liquid droplets on the workpiece, and moves along a guide member in a second scan direction; one or more maintainers that are used to...

20060181568 - Ink jet recording apparatus: The present invention provides an ink jet recording apparatus having an ink jet recording head provided with a plurality of nozzles through which inks of a plurality of colors are ejected, a cap to be detachably brought into close contact with a nozzle face in which holes of the plurality...

20060181569 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus including a head part with an ejection port configured to eject ink, a discarded-ink tank configured to collect ejected or absorbed ink in order to restore a function of the ejection port, and a sensing device configured to sense the discarded ink collected in the discarded-ink...

20060181570 - Uniquely spaced markings: Embodiments of uniquely spaced markings are disclosed....

20060181571 - Ink jet recording head and ink jet recording apparatus provided therewith: In an ink jet recording head which can discharge ink droplets having different discharge amounts, stabilization of the ink discharge amount is efficiently achieved without upsizing and cost increase. In the ink jet recording head of the invention, three ink supply ports are provided in a recording element substrate. For...

20060181573 - Inkjet printer having arbitrarily mounted cartridge and method of recognizing the cartridge: An inkjet printer includes a main logic board having elements controlling the inkjet printer, and first and second carriers where first and second cartridges are mounted. The first and/or second cartridges are arbitrarily mounted on any one of the first and second carriers. A circuit component recognizing the arbitrarily mounted...

20060181572 - Method and apparatus for color formatting in a color printer: A printer includes a print engine and a monochrome formatter connected to the print engine and being operatively connectable to a color chip. A monochrome print engine and a monochrome formatter provide a monochrome printer. A color print engine and a monochrome formatter operatively connected to a color chip provide...

20060181575 - Liquid droplet jetting apparatus and nozzle plate used in the same: A plurality of nozzles is formed in a nozzle plate. A first liquid repellent film which surrounds an ejecting port of each of the nozzles and which has a liquid repellent property higher than a liquid repellent property of an inner surface of the nozzle is formed on an ink...

20060181574 - Method of manufacturing nozzle plate and method of manufacturing liquid droplet ejection head: The method of manufacturing a nozzle plate, comprises: a filling step of preparing a plate member having a plurality of holes, and filling a filling material into the plurality of holes, the filling material being capable of transmitting radiation; a liquid-repelling film forming step of forming a liquid-repelling film onto...

20060181576 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and platen unit: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a liquid ejecting head that has a conductive nozzle plate and discharges liquid from openings of the nozzle plate to recording material; an absorbing member that is arranged opposite the nozzle plate in a direction in which the liquid is discharged and...

20060181577 - Liquid ejecting apparatus, recording apparatus, absorbing member and ink collecting unit: There is provided a liquid ejecting apparatus including a liquid ejecting head that has a conductive nozzle plate and discharges liquid from openings of the nozzle plate to recording material, a conductive absorbing member that is arranged opposite the nozzle plate in a direction in which liquid is discharged and...

20060181578 - Ink jet recording head, and recording apparatus provided with this recording head: The objective of the invention is to provide an ink jet recording head that discharges a droplet of differently colored ink, so that the volume of the ink discharged is efficiently stabilized, without the apparatus size and the manufacturing costs being increased. According to an ink jet recording head of...

20060181579 - Inkjet recording apparatus: An inkjet recording apparatus includes an inkjet head and a frame supporting the inkjet head. The inkjet head includes a channel unit is fixed to the reservoir unit and a reservoir unit. The reservoir unit includes a laminated structure in which plural plate members are laminated. The plate members include...

20060181580 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead including an upper substrate, having an ink inlet, a manifold connected with the ink inlet, and a plurality of pressure chambers arranged along at least one side of the manifold, wherein the ink inlet passes through the upper substrate, and the manifold and the pressure chambers...

20060181581 - Piezoelectric inkjet printhead and method of manufacturing the same: A piezoelectric inkjet printhead, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes an ink inlet for allowing inflow of ink, a plurality of pressure chambers to contain ink to be ejected, the plurality of pressure chambers being in communication with the ink inlet, a manifold formed in communication with the...

20060181582 - Piezoelectric actuator and liquid transporting apparatus: A piezoelectric actuator 3 of a liquid transporting apparatus includes grooves 40 which are formed on a surface of a vibration plate 30 on a side of pressure chambers 14, and each of the grooves 40 is formed at an area which is inside of the edge of one of...

20060181583 - Method of controlling functional liquid supply apparatus, functional liquid supply apparatus, liquid droplet ejection apparatus, method of manufacturing electro-optical device, electro-optical device, and electronic device: A method of controlling a functional liquid supply apparatus includes: a pressure-loss computing step for computing a pressure loss of each kind of a functional liquid flowing through respective functional liquid passages which extend from respective functional liquid tanks to a functional liquid droplet ejection head; a supply-pressure computing step...

20060181585 - Identifiable inkjet cartridge and method of preventing misplacing inkjet cartridge in an inkjet apparatus: An identifiable TAB for an inkjet cartridge. The identifiable tab contains a flexible substrate, a plurality of conductive traces formed on the flexible substrate, and a plurality of contacts formed on the flexible substrate and connected to the conductive traces. The contacts of the identifiable TAB are arranged into at...

20060181584 - Ink cartridge for ink-jet printer: An ink cartridge for ink-jet printer where the ink cartridge comprises an ink supply adjusting valve, air vent valve, and ink storage chamber. Ink supply adjusting valve includes an ink inlet communicates in ink fluid communication with the ink storage chamber and an ink outlet connected with ink-supply port of...

20060181586 - Ink composition, ink set using same, recording method, ink head and recorded image:

20060181587 - Ink set and media for ink-jet printing: An ink set for ink-jet printing includes a medium cyan ink-jet ink, a magenta ink-jet ink, and a gray ink-jet ink. Each of the medium cyan ink-jet ink, the magenta ink-jet ink, and the gray ink-jet ink are configured to have a lightness at a predetermined/given number of drops per...

20060181588 - Image forming method and image forming apparatus: The image forming method includes a recording step of recording an image on an image recording layer of an image recording medium according to image data, a material setting step of setting a coating film to be provided on the image recording layer according to glossiness data indicating glossiness of...

20060181589 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance belt stretched around a plurality of rollers and carrying and conveying a recording medium to the image forming apparatus, at least one roller of the plural rollers being a driving roller rotationally driving the conveyance belt; and a pressing part configured to come...

20060181590 - Image forming apparatus having a removable output unit: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that discharges droplets of recording liquid to form an image on a recording medium, a body including the image forming section, and a conveyor section that conveys the recording medium having thereon the image formed in the image forming section. An...

20060181591 - Ink for inkjet printing, lithographic printing plate using it and method for making such plate: The present invention provides an ink for use in inkjet printing which can be cured by irradiation of radiant ray, characterized in that said ink for use in inkjet printing contains at least a colorant, a polymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, further comprising a compound capable of forming a...

20060181592 - Ink-jet recording medium: The present invention relates to a recording medium, in particular an ink-jet recording medium of photographic quality that has excellent ink absorption speed, good drying characteristics and a good image printing quality. According to the present invention, an ink-jet recording medium is provided, comprising a support and an ink-receiving layer...

20060181594 - Electrostatic actuator and manufacturing method thereof, droplet discharging head and manufacturing method thereof, droplet discharging apparatus and device: An electrostatic actuator includes: a diaphragm constituting one electrode; and an electrode substrate on which an opposed electrode opposite to the diaphragm has been formed with a gap, in which the opposed electrode is formed in a grooved portion, having a rectangular shape in plan view, formed on the electrode...

20060181593 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor which forms an electrostatic image on a surface, a light exposure unit which forms the electrostatic image on the surface, a development unit which develops the electrostatic image, a belt member which transfers a developer deposited on the photoreceptor, a driving unit which...

20060181595 - Digital writing apparatus: In transfer of even pixel data, focusing on even-number data, only the even data is selected out of eight pixels of image data read out from a storage circuit and transferred to an LED head in a unit of four bits. Four pixel data are simply selected out of eight...

20060181596 - System and method for efficient donor material use: A method for operating more than one thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium, each printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a full donor patch or a fractional donor...

20060181597 - System and method for efficient donor material use: In a first aspect of the invention, a method is provided for operating a thermal printer adapted to print images by transferring donor material from patches of donor material from a donor ribbon onto a receiver medium, said printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a...

20060181598 - System and method for efficient donor material use: Methods and control systems are provided for operating a thermal printer adapted to print images by heating and transferring donor material from donor patch sets from onto a receiver medium, the printer being operable to print images in a manner that exhausts a full donor patch set or a fractional...

20060181599 - Thermal development method and apparatus: In a thermal development method for generating a image from a latent image recorded on an image formation layer of a photosensitive photothermographic recording material, by means of heating the recording material, a first surface, which is one surface of the recording material, and a second surface, which is the...

20060181600 - Patterns formed by transfer of conductive particles: The invention relates to a transfer element comprising a base having thereon a transfer layer of inorganic conductive particles in a polymer matrix wherein said transfer layer of inorganic conductive particles has an adhesion to said base of between 20 and 400 grams/cm....

20060181601 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a body of the image forming apparatus within which a developing part to develop an image on a print medium fed to the image forming apparatus is housed, a fixing unit installed within the body of the image forming apparatus to...

20060181602 - Thermal development recording apparatus: A thermal development recording apparatus has a recording portion for exposing a thermal development recording material to form a latent image, a thermal-developing portion for heating the thermal development recording material to execute a thermal development, and a cooling portion for cooling the thermal development recording material after the thermal...

20060181603 - Scanning head and printer: A scanning head includes a surface emitting part array panel which has an array of surface emitting parts to emit light A plurality of light guide parts are respectively opposite to the surface emitting parts. Each of light guide parts has an entrance plane to receive the light from the...

20060181604 - Solid scanning optical writing device: A plurality of optical shutter elements having an electro-optical effect is juxtaposed in a main scanning direction, and the light emitted from a light source comprising LED groups is modulated by turning on and off the optical shutter elements to thereby form an image on a photosensitive material. The optical...

20060176325 - Liquid application device and inkjet recording apparatus: The present invention provides a liquid application device and an inkjet recording apparatus, which are capable of supplying liquid to a liquid room with the power consumption and/or the noise which are reduced. A pump is driven to fill a liquid retention space S with an application liquid. When the...

20060176326 - Fluid injector devices and methods for utilizing the same: A fluid injector device with a plurality of heaters for bubble generation is provided. The resistance of each heater is measured and compared with a standard operating resistance. Output signal is adjusted to heaters with resistance exceeding the standard operating resistance....

20060176327 - Method of jetting viscous medium: The invention relates to a method of improving the performance of a jetting assembly in an apparatus for jetting droplets of viscous medium on the fly onto a substrate. The jetting assembly is releasably mounted in the apparatus and comprises a nozzle, an ejection mechanism connected to the nozzle, and...

20060176328 - Liquid droplet ejecting head, image recording apparatus, recording method, and image recording method: A liquid droplet ejecting head has a nozzle, a driving element which ejects a liquid droplet from the nozzle by being driven, a storing unit, a driving waveform generating unit, and a supplying unit. The storing unit respectively stores plural driving waveforms, which are for timewise driving a driving element...

20060176329 - Liquid ejection method: A liquid ejection method includes generating drive signals including ejection pulses, and applying the ejection pulses to an element that performs an operation for causing a liquid to be ejected. The element is provided corresponding to a nozzle. The nozzle causes the liquid to be ejected toward a targeted object....

20060176330 - Inkjet printing apparatus and information processing method: An object of this invention is to provide ink viscosity information of an inkjet printing apparatus at low cost in small space. To achieve this object, the inkjet printing apparatus of this invention serves as an inkjet printing apparatus which performs image printing by using a printhead with a plurality...

20060176331 - Ink-jet printing method and ink-jet printing apparatus: A width A of the scanning area of the ink ejection orifices and a width B of the scanning area of the reacting liquid ejection orifices are respectively set as A =(n−a)×n p and B=n×p, while amount of the feeding of the printing sheet during each scan corresponds to the...

20060176332 - Inkjet head: An inkjet head includes an ink flow path unit. The ink flow path unit includes a common ink chamber and plural individual ink flow paths. Each individual ink flow path extends from the common ink chamber to a nozzle through a pressure chamber. The ink flow path unit includes plural...

20060176333 - Liquid ejecting apparatus and liquid suction device of the same: A liquid ejecting apparatus is operable to eject liquid onto a medium. A head is inclined with respect to a horizontal line, and includes nozzles from which the liquid is ejected to the medium. A liquid suction device includes a main body operable to seal the nozzles, a suction unit...

20060176334 - Ink-jet recording device and wiping method: The ink-jet recording device of the present invention is provided with an ink-jet recording head that operates pressure waves on ink in a pressure chamber and ejects ink droplets from multiple nozzles; a wiper that wipes a nozzle face of the ink-jet recording head; a drive waveform applying component that...

20060176335 - Droplet ejecting apparatus, method of forming a thin film, and substrate for a display device: A droplet ejecting apparatus, method of forming a thin film, and a substrate for a display device, wherein a droplet ejecting apparatus includes a first ejecting unit ejecting a first droplet on a substrate, a second ejecting unit ejecting a second droplet on the substrate along a path defined by...

20060176336 - Printing systems: A system includes at least first and second marking modules, each of the marking modules including a marking engine and at least one media feeder which feeds print media to the marking engines. First and second output modules receive print media from the first and second marking modules. The first...

20060176338 - Nozzle plate and method of manufacturing the same: A nozzle plate (8) of the present invention is arranged such that, between (i) a first nozzle layer (1) having a first nozzle hole (orifice) (11a) that discharges a liquid substance and (ii) a second nozzle layer (2) having a second nozzle hole (11b) that is connected to the first...

20060176337 - Printer for printing an image according to presence/absence of dot formation and printing control device thereof: A printing system of the invention successively forms rasters or dot lines on a printing medium to complete a printed image. A raster formation assembly is scanned in a raster-forming direction relative to the printing medium and completes each raster on the printing medium by a preset number of multiple...

20060176339 - Inkjet printer and method of actuating this inkjet printer: An inkjet printer including an inkjet printhead containing a substantially closed duct provided with an exit opening used to eject ink drops from the duct, wherein the duct comprises two electrically conducting parts, each of which being fitted to a duct wall, these elements extending to the vicinity of the...

20060176341 - Device for dispensing drops of a liquid: A device for dispensing drops of a liquid is disclosed. The device comprises a liquid accelerating vessel (11) for receiving a volume of the liquid to be dispensed, a nozzle (14) which is directly mechanically connected with the liquid accelerating vessel (11), a bending element (15), having one portion (17)...

20060176342 - Dielectric film structure, piezoelectric actuator using dielectric element film structure and ink jet head: where, Cc is a count number of a peak of a (001′) face of the dielectric film in an Out-of-plane X ray diffraction measurement (here, l′ is a natural number selected so that Cc becomes maximum); Ca is a count number of a peak of a (h′00) face of the...

20060176340 - Liquid droplet ejecting head and liquid droplet ejecting device: A liquid droplet ejecting head comprising: a channel substrate in which a nozzle and a pressure chamber, which is partitioned off by a pressure chamber dividing wall, are formed; a piezoelectric element substrate having a diaphragm that forms a part of the pressure chamber and a piezoelectric element that displaces...

20060176344 - Liquid ejection head, method of manufacturing same, and image forming apparatus: The liquid ejection head ejects droplets of liquid from ejection ports by pressurizing the liquid filled in pressure chambers connected to the ejection ports. The liquid ejection head comprises: a first substrate; first conducting members which are formed by spray deposition in a column shape erecting on a surface of...

20060176343 - Liquid-jet head and liquid-jet apparatus: A liquid-jet head is provided. In the liquid-jet head, a lower electrode, as a common electrode common to a plurality of piezoelectric elements, is continuously formed as far as an outer region opposite the piezoelectric elements, an auxiliary electrode layer is provided which comprises the same layers as layers constituting...

20060176347 - Inkjet printhead assembly and ink supply apparatus for the same: An inkjet printhead assembly including an inkjet printhead chip having an ink inflow hole, a frame having an ink supply hole, and an ink supply apparatus having a preheater and an ink supply outlet, wherein the frame is disposed between the inkjet printhead chip and the ink supply apparatus, the...

20060176346 - Liquid ejection apparatus and liquid filling method for liquid ejection apparatus: In a first intense suction, a supply line K is subjected to suction by a suction pump 23 with a portion of the supply line K held in a blocked state. Subsequently, the blocked portion of the supply line K is opened and trapped bubbles are discharged from a pressure...

20060176345 - Liquid jetting device: The present invention is a liquid ejecting apparatus including: a carriage that reciprocates in a main scanning direction; a liquid ejecting head mounted on the carriage, having a plurality of head-liquid-supplying ports and a plurality of nozzles; and a sub-tank member mounted on the carriage, having a plurality of liquid-storing-room...

20060176348 - Ink tank and ink jet printer: An ink tank of the foam type which is provided with a detected portion capable of exactly and surely detecting the amount of ink used by the printer or remaining in the ink tank. The ink tank includes a sub ink chamber that is diposed or formed between a main...

20060176349 - Recording ink for ink-jet recording apparatus, and, ink cartridge,ink-jet recording apparatus, ink-jet recording process, and recorded matter: Disclosed is a recording ink for ink-jet recording which contains a colorant, water, a humectant, a surfactant, and a wetting agent, wherein the recoding ink is applied to ink-jet recording apparatuses capable of recording on a second recording side of a recording medium following recording on a first recording side...

20060176350 - Replacement of passive electrical components: A process of fabricating a passive electrical component, such as a resistor, a capacitor, or an inductor, is provided. The process includes the step of ink-jet printing at least one electronic ink onto a substrate in a predetermined pattern. The step of ink-jet printing may include the steps of: a)...

20060176351 - Platen assembly for an ink jet printer: A platen assembly for an ink jet printer and method of operating an ink jet printer. The platen assembly includes a platen member having at least one channel therein for receiving a rotatable platen rod and a skive residing in the channel adjacent to the rotatable platen rod. The skive...

20060176352 - Recording apparatus: A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit which records an image by ejecting ink to a conveyed recording medium; a conveying unit which returns the recording medium, on which the image has been recorded by the recording unit, in order toward an upstream side in a conveying direction; and a...

20060176353 - Method for recording data and device for carrying out the same comprising a deformable memory support: The recording device comprises a network of micro-points (6), with tips of nanometre scale, fixed to the same substrate (7). Said network of micro-points cooperates with a deformable memory support (1), which absorbs the range of differing heights of the micro-points (6) on bringing the network into contact with the...

20060176355 - Color registration apparatus and method in electrophotographic printer and computer-readable recording medium storing computer program: Provided are a color registration compensation apparatus and method in an electrophotographic printer and computer-readable recording medium storing a computer program. The apparatus includes an exposing unit that irradiates light onto a photoconductive drum which forms a first latent image, which is a mark a second latent image, having a...

20060176354 - Method and apparatus for forming images capable of reducing color registration errors: An image forming apparatus including a memory device configured to prestore control information and registration pattern data, a traveling member, a toner pattern forming device forming a toner pattern, which includes a plurality of marks of a plurality of color components, on the traveling member according to the registration pattern...

20060176356 - Printer: After a voltage of opposite polarity is applied between electrodes of liquid crystal shutters for each of an odd number of colored lights emitted cyclically, a dummy operation of the liquid crystals is performed during a wait period until a next write command pulse is received. During the dummy operation,...

20060176357 - Thermal development method and apparatus: In a thermal development method for generating an image from a latent image recorded on an image formation layer of a photosensitive photothermographic recording material, by means of heating the photosensitive photothermographic recording material, a first surface, which is one surface of the photosensitive photothermographic recording material, and a second...

20060176358 - Method of adjusting strobe length in a thermal printer to reduce effects of changes in media transport speed: A thermal printing apparatus and a method of controlling a thermal printing apparatus is provided wherein the duration of the strobe pulse utilized to transfer the ink from the carrier to the media is controlled and adjusted by a correction factor. The correction factor is calculated by the printer controller...

20060176359 - Thermal head including bonding pads having irregular surfaces formed by forming irregularities on underlayer: A thermal head includes a large number of heating resistors disposed at a regular interval, individual conductors individually connected to each of the heating resistors, and common conductors connected to each of the heating resistors in common, the individual conductors and the common conductors serving as conductors for supplying the...

20060176360 - Thermal printing mechanism, in particularly applicable to payment terminals: The invention relates to a thermal printing mechanism, comprising a chassis (1) housing a motor (6) for driving a printable tape, a thermal printing head (4), a backup roller (5) and electronic control means (8). The chassis (1) is fitted with a rigidification plate (9) extending substantially over its length,...

20060176361 - Exposing head, luminous amount correction method for the same, and exposing apparatus: A luminous amount correction method for an exposing head having a linear luminous element array having a plurality of luminous elements and a lens array having lenses. The method includes the steps of: activating each luminous element uniformly based on a common light emission command signal; measuring luminous amounts of...

20060176362 - Optical system and method for increasing image resolution and/or dithering in printing applications: An optical system is provided for projecting an image having x and y axes onto print material. The system includes an SLM device spaced from the print material, the SLM device having a plurality of pixels operable to project pixels of the image onto the print material and positioned such...

20060176363 - Image forming apparatus and image deviation correcting method: Image forming units each form an image of one color, which are superimposed to form a color image, and a pattern used for correcting deviation of the image. A first detector positioned at an image writing starting side, and a second and a third detector each detects the pattern. A...

20060170715 - Digital image printing system, printing apparatus, method of controlling digital image printing system, method of controlling printing apparatus, and computer product: An external apparatus transmits a size of a print sheet and at least one digital image data to a printing apparatus. Upon receiving the size and the at least one digital image data, the printing apparatus selects, a tray in which a print sheet of an actual sheet type with...

20060170716 - Method of adjusting printing resolution to avoid conditions of poor pen performance in an inkjet printing system, and systems: Exemplary embodiments of the invention include methods of adjusting the print resolution of an inkjet printhead having a region of poor performance such that printing occurs outside the region of poor performance. Exemplary embodiments also include systems utilizing the methods....

20060170717 - Recording head driving device and printing apparatus: A driving device drives a recording head in which droplet ejection portions are plurally arrayed. The droplet ejection portions include actuating elements which are driven in accordance with driving signals such that droplets are ejected. The driving device is provided with a standard waveform generation section, a voltage amplification section,...

20060170718 - Liquid-detecting device and liquid container with the same: A first electrode (46) has a main portion (46a) covering almost the overall area of a concavity (43) and including a notch (46c). A piezoelectric layer (47) has a main portion (47a) in a diameter smaller than that of the concavity (43), and the whole thereof is within the concavity...

20060170719 - Method of controlling the print quality for an inkjet printer and a printer which functions to perform this method: A method and system for application in an inkjet printer containing a substantially closed ink duct in which ink is situated, said duct being operationally connected to an electromechanical transducer, the method including the steps of: actuating the transducer with a number of actuation pulses according to a predetermined actuation...

20060170720 - Printing apparatus, program, and printing method: A print start position is set to an appropriate position, and the time required for printing is shortened. A printing apparatus, which forms a row of dots from a print start position in a scanning direction to print on a medium to be printed, is provided with a sensor that...

20060170722 - Image processor, image processing method, printer, printing method, program, and recording medium: An image processor for a printer that forms an image on a medium by discharging N types (N is a natural number of 2 or more) of ink having different densities for at least one color system from respective nozzles includes a printing image data generator for generating printing image...

20060170721 - Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control program, printing apparatus control method, printing data creating apparatus, printing data creating program and printing data creating method: A printing apparatus which is capable of printing an image on a printing medium by a print head having a nozzle that is capable of creating two or more types of dots varied depending on size, the printing apparatus includes: a first image data acquiring module that acquires first image...

20060170723 - Encoder: In an embodiment, a first signal is generated in response to movement of a media transport assembly and a second signal is generated....

20060170724 - Ink jet recording apparatus: When an image is formed by imparting aqueous ink discharged from a recording head onto a recording medium P, water content contained in the aqueous ink is evaporated to suppress curl generated in the recording medium P after the image formation by a heater. The aqueous ink contains at least...

20060170725 - Method of preparing an ink duct of an inkjet printhead, and an inkjet printer which has been modified for this method to be applied: A method of preparing an inkjet printhead, prior to generating an image onto a receiving medium, the printhead containing a substantially closed ink duct comprising an inlet opening and a nozzle, said duct being operationally connected to an electro-mechanical transducer, the method including the steps of arranging that the duct...

20060170726 - Image forming apparatus: The image forming apparatus comprises: an ink ejection device which ejects a droplet of ink toward a recording medium, the ink including a solvent and a coloring material dissolved or dispersed in the solvent; a treatment liquid deposition device which deposits a treatment liquid on the recording medium, the treatment...

20060170727 - Inkjet recording device and method for cleaning nozzle face of inkjet recording head: An inkjet recording device of the present invention includes an inkjet recording head, a first wiper, a first movement component and a control component. The inkjet recording head ejects ink droplets from a plurality of nozzles formed in a nozzle face. The first wiper abuts against the nozzle face and...

20060170728 - Pen wiping method and system that employs a treadmill belt: According to one embodiment of the present invention, a service station for maintaining pens is provided. The service station includes a treadmill belt that has an outer surface and an inner surface. At least one wiper is positioned on the outer surface of the treadmill belt. The treadmill belt is...

20060170729 - Printer and print head assembly for shuttle motion and in-line printing: An inkjet printer and reconfigurable print head assembly is provided for shuttle and in-line printing upon a media. The reconfigurable print head assembly comprises a print head for depositing ink on the media, a carriage assembly operable to position the print head relative to the me